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Foucault's Orient : the conundrum of cultural difference, from Tunisia to Japan /

Foucault lived for two years in Tunisia and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the Orient and the Occident constitute the "limit" of Western rationality. Using interviews with scholars familiar with him from...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lazreg, Marnia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
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Table des matières:
  • The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge of Difference
  • Madness and Cultural Difference
  • Foucault and Kant's Cosmopolitan Anthropology
  • Foucault's Negative Anthropology
  • Foucault's Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution
  • The Heterotopia of Tunisia
  • The Enigma of Japan
  • Japan and Foucault's Anthropological Bind
  • Epilogue.